Eric - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm just this guy, you know? I'm a software engineer, but work isn't my life. I love climbing, I spend almost all my free time doing it, all my non-free time daydreaming about it, and I instruct an intermediate course with the Boeing Alpine Club. I love to learn things, I love to see something I don't understand and figure it out. I love my friends. I like my car and my motorcycle. Because I'm not sure if it's okay to love inanimate objects. I'm also into drinks and food. If I can spend a day with friends, climbing, and then drink beer, that is pretty much the best day. I might not be very complicated.

My Interests

rock climbing, mountaineering, ice climbing, skiing, hiking, camping, ultimate, racing, cars, motorcycles, trucks, beer, computers, books, music

I'd like to meet:

Rope guns, powder hounds, disc jockeys. Funny people. Fonts of wit. People who like their music loud, their beer cold, and their seasons summer.

Music:

Elvis Costello, Frank Black, Pixies, David Byrne, Talking Heads, Foo Fighters, Pulp, Robyn Hitchcock, The Young Fresh Fellows, the Minus 5, Morrissey, Guided by Voices, Magnetic Fields, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Beck

Movies:

Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, Transformers: The Movie, A Fistfull of Dollars, Unforgiven, Mulholland Drive, Lost in Translation

Television:

I don't really watch television but I do like Arrested Development and the Venture Brothers

Books:

The God Particle, Dune, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Lord of the Rings, Watership Down

Heroes:

richard feynman, mike gauthier, george patton, beck hansen, clint motherfucking eastwood

My Blog

a weekend with teh n00bz: Devils Peak

With unbelievably beautiful warm weather in the forecast, I headed into the hills with the intrepid members of Nice Marmot. Devil's basin was a slurpee when we got to camp on Saturday so we layed out ...
Posted by Eric on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:01:00 PST

quoi the fuck, france

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Posted by Eric on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:32:00 PST

alpine 4

Last weekend I went out for alpine 4 with the ICC. We were going to climb Burgundy Spire in the North Cascades. We met around noon on Saturday, drove up and did the approach hike in about 1:40, and se...
Posted by Eric on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:00:00 PST

squampton

I have fallen behind in my trip reporting! Fear not, rectification is at hand. So, way back three weekends ago, I went climbing in Squamish with Moira. I met her in Darrington a couple weeks befo...
Posted by Eric on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:24:00 PST

BACKBONE

The ongoing epic... The Backbone Ridge on Dragontail (5.9, Grade IV+, 15 pitches, 2000 feet vertical, other impressive statistics) was on my hit list this summer. My friend Tom Ryan dropped me an...
Posted by Eric on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:25:00 PST

watch this

I should be writing about the climb that kept me out until 3 this morning... but I'm too tired. Watch this instead. btw how do you embed video in this on the first try? Every time I go to ...
Posted by Eric on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:36:00 PST

BE AGGRESSIVE

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Posted by Eric on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:53:00 PST

soñador

On Sunday I went back to Dreamer in Darrington with Paul, Jared and Bill. Jared and Bill had a wedding on Saturday so they needed a one-day climb. I suggested Dreamer and everyone liked the idea. P...
Posted by Eric on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:07:00 PST

liberty crack!

Liberty Crack! Liberty Crack! I heard the name a billionty times before I even went up to Washington pass. Liberty Crack! Classic! My buddy Robert got stormed off it twice in the last couple years so...
Posted by Eric on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:13:00 PST

alpine two

This last weekend was Alpine Outing 2 for the Intermediate Climbing Course. Myself and Dan Goering got sent to climb Burgundy Spire with a couple of NOOBS!The forecast was looking grim. We decided tha...
Posted by Eric on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:01:00 PST